U.S. Marines with 4th Civil Affairs Group, Marine Forces Reserve have a conversation with a member of the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Disaster Assistance Response Team during Exercise CENTAM Guardian 24 Phase II in San Jose, Costa Rica, June 5, 2024. The Marines and USAID discussed logistics and opportunities to utilize U.S. Marine Corps Civil Affairs in future humanitarian aid and seawater relief operations. Exercise CENTAM Guardian 24 Phase II, an annual, multinational exercise designed to build humanitarian assistance/disaster response functional capacity, 3-14 June, is taking place in various locations throughout Costa Rica. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Colton K. Garrett)

U.S. Marines with 4th Civil Affairs Group, Marine Forces Reserve, members of the U.S Army and Air Force, and members of partner nation’s armed forces attend an educational lecture during Exercise CENTAM Guardian 24 Phase II in San Jose, Costa Rica, June 3, 2024. Exercise CENTAM Guardian 24 Phase II, 3-14 June, is taking place in various locations throughout Costa Rica. CENTAM Guardian 24 is an annual, multinational exercise designed to build humanitarian assistance/disaster response functional capacity, enhance readiness to combat common threats in Central America, and promote cooperation and interoperability between participating forces. This year, 7 nations will participate – including Costa Rica (Host nation), El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Panama and the U.S. CENTAM Guardian 24 is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-approved exercise that is nested under JS-Large Scale Global Exercise 2024 (LSGE 24). These multinational exercises demonstrate our forces’ cooperation and shared commitment to global stability, peace and prosperity, and agile forces ready and postured to respond to today’s dynamic security challenges. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Colton K. Garrett)

U.S., Republic of Korea, and Royal Thai service members participate in Exercise Cobra Gold in Sattahip, Chonburi province, Thailand, Feb. 23 - March 8, 2024. Cobra Gold, now in its 43rd year, is a Thai-U.S. co-sponsored training event that builds on the long-standing friendship between the two allied nations and brings together a robust multinational force to promote regional peace and security in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Patrick Katz) The video contains music from a USMC enterprise licensed assets from Adobe Stock: You Better Do It Motivational Trailer performed by Jamendo, Expressive Violin performed by MusicRevolution, and Ambient Somber Dream performed by FineTune Music/stock.adobe.com